Only think to what account a proud, impetuous and passionate enemy could turn their stoicism!
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A Puritan poet, in a Puritan environment, could not have done otherwise.
— from Milton by Mark Pattison

This edition is described on the title page as Editio Veneta prima ipso auctore praesente, et corrigente .
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

"O grandpa, can't you see?" asked Rosie Travilla, and they all hurried from the room, to return presently in a procession, each carrying something in his or her hand.
— from Christmas with Grandma Elsie by Martha Finley

I, p. 650.] "Alii referunt ad Phœnices inventores arithmeticæ, propter eandem commerciorum caussam: Alii ad Indos: Ioannes de Sacrobosco, cujus sepulchrum est Lutetiæ in comitio Maturinensi, refert ad Arabes."
— from The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by David Eugene Smith

Côtelettes de mouton Sefton was Antonelli's suggestion, and was carried unanimously; but I altered his pheasant, which sounded greedy for two people, into a perdreau en casserole .
— from Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis

In case we decide them to be right, we experience an emotion of self-approval which is very delightful; but if we decide that they are wrong, we experience an immediate penalty in a painful emotion called remorse .
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

Note 441 ( return ) [ See the woodcut, and compare Renan, Mission de Phénicie , planches, pl. ii.; and Perrot et Chipiez, Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité , iii. 25.]
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

The sister had propped her up with pillows in a posture especially comfortable for writing.
— from Derelicts by William John Locke

The mind of a new-born infant, so far from being, as Locke affirms, a sheet of blank paper, is a pocket edition containing every dialogue, a complete Elzevir Plato, if we can fancy such a pleasant volume, and moreover a perfect encyclopedia, comprehending not only the newest discoveries, but all those still more valuable and wonderful inventions that will hereafter be made.
— from Shelley at Oxford by Thomas Jefferson Hogg